He holds a PhD in International Cooperation from Nagoya University, Japan, a master's degree in International Political Science from Ehime University, Japan, and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a full-time tenured “C” professor at the Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Study Group for the Strengthening of Economic Relations between Mexico and Japan. He is a researcher level II of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). In 2011, he participated in the short research internship program at the Nattie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2019 he received recognition from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for his contributions to research and teaching Japanese studies in Mexico. He has several publications on economic and diplomatic relations between Mexico and Japan, Japanese foreign policy, and regional cooperation mechanisms in the Asia Pacific and on International Cooperation.
Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia reúne los escritos de 15 integrantes del Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (PUEAA), quienes recurren al género epistolario a fin de plasmar sus vivencias durante la pandemia por Covid-19.
Como escribe Alicia Girón, los integrantes del PUEAA "soñábamos con realizar actividades en diferentes lugares, como Corea, China, Japón, India, Marruecos, Senegal, Sudáfrica y España [...] pero todo cambió el 16 de marzo, cuando se decretó el cierre de todas las actividades". Así, las cartas contenidas en este libro están dirigidas en su mayoría a seres queridos o admirados que viven fuera de México. De este modo, los autores nos permiten vislumbrar no sólo su propio mundo privado e intereses de estudio sino también el de sus interlocutores, dándonos por ende una muestra de su sensibilidad ante un evento que ha afectado a todo el mundo. En efecto, la variedad de termas expuestos en las cartas van desde la nostalgia del encuentro físico, hasta la angustia debido al número de muertos y contagiados, pasando por los avatares de la vida cotidiana.
Acompañado de las ilustraciones de Yussef A. Galicia, Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia revela con delicadeza el "compromiso de cada autor [...] tuvo para transmitir sus vivencias durante la pandemia de Covid-19 en el 2020".
Three decades after the birth of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, profound changes have been observed in the international economic system. Today, this intergovernmental forum faces major challenges in implementing its ambitious agenda in the areas of economic liberalization, trade facilitation and cooperation among member countries. Readers of this book will find in it a detailed diagnosis of its evolution and achievements, but also of the problems it faces in the present "crisis of multilateralism", triggered by the neo-protectionist policies of the United States. In order to achieve this objective, leading national researchers from public and private higher education institutions, most of which are members of the Mexican Consortium of APEC Study Centers, were invited to participate under the leadership of the APEC Study Center located within the University Program for Asian and African Studies (PUEAA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
This book has three axes of transversal analysis. The first one addresses the experience of economic development in Japan, which went from a model of sustained high growth to a pattern of lower performance, but with a great internationalization of its productive schemes and capital flows.
The second vector analyses the foreign policy responses that the Japanese government has had to the changes in the commercial and financial architecture in the Asia-Pacific, especially to the rise of China as an economic power but also to the emerging schemes for the search for a comprehensive regional economic liberalization process, which the first step, undoubtedly, is represented by the 12-country negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (better known by its acronym TPP).
The third and last one focuses on taking a balance of the initiative called "Abenomics" presented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as a mechanism to deal with the long cycle of low growth and attend the emerging challenges of Japanese society. The ten co-authors who participate in the work converge on the idea of reflecting on how Japan has gone through and faced the hasty changes within the contemporary international economy –now more globalized– in the last seven decades that have witnessed the deepest and intense transformations that the world has undergone since the modern era.
In this sense, it is clear that for the Japanese government, both the Abenomics and the TPP possibly represent the most viable responses, but not the only ones to gradually restore economic health and contain the erosion of the social welfare pact to which the Japanese people were able to enjoy in the post-war period. That is the great challenge that the Shinzō Abe government faces at the domestic and international levels.
In the framework of the 400 years since Hasekura arrived in Mexico, the University Seminary of Asian Studies (SUEA), the Institute of Philological Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences through their Center for International Relations, entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), undertook the labour of organizing the Japanese Culture Day to commemorate the anniversary of what has traditionally been considered the first Japanese embassy in Mexico: the Hasekura Mission.
This publication is the result of that academic day, this also has the purpose of recovering the memory of the cultural relations between Mexico and Japan. In this way, gives the reader the possibility to get close to know various aspects of Japanese culture in their own field and in their relationship with Mexico. The studies included have a variety of topics that are organized in four sections: 1. Japan as an object of study; 2. The Hasekura Mission: a historical reassessment; 3. The regional economic system and 4. Language and Literature.